Name of Ancestor: James William Anderson
Ancestor's date of birth: 17/04/1879
Ancestor's date of death: 24/12/1955
Cause of Death: Detail not provided
Service Number: 27
Colony or State of enlistment: VIC, Place of Enlistment: Detail not provided
Unit: 1 Victorian Mounted Rifles, 3 NSW Imperial Bushmen
Rank attained in Boer War: TPR, Date Effective: 1900
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): No evidence of post Boer War service
Murray Page: 226, 148
Contingent: First Victorian, Fourth New South Wales
Ship: SS MEDIC, Date of Sailing: 28/10/1899
Memorial details: Melbourne General Cemetery
Decorations: Queen and King's South Africa medals with clasps
Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided
Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided
Details of service in war: From November 1899 in northern Cape Colony including defence of Pink Hill where five killed (12 February), in Free State, and in east Transvaal; 1 VMR was core of Australian Regiment November 1899-April 1900. Then transferred to NSW Imperial Bushmen serving in Rhodesia, west Transvaal including defence of Elands River Post (4-16 August 1900), then in northern Transvaal.
Service and life after the Boer War: Invalided back to Australia arr. 16/01/1901. No other detail provided
